Trees

The reverence of great trees – be they oaks, ash, or the witch-ridden elders – is universal and found in all cultures. Equally so in the British Isles. In all animistic traditions, trees are imbued with spirits of various forms and are the focus of rites and moots, as well as the source of a great many medicines.  Their reverence is as much an integral part of our natural cosmos as stones, wells, streams, mountains, etc.

  1. Adam & Eve’s Oak, Brierley – see Adam’s Oak
  2. Adam’s Oak, Brierley, South Yorkshire
  3. Bogle Bush, Collace, Perthshire
  4. Crown Tree, Keillor, Perthshire
  5. Druid’s Holly, Killin, Perthshire
  6. Druid’s Oak, Caton, Lancashire
  7. Fair-Haia, Carlton, North Yorkshire
  8. Fairy Oak, Killin, Perthshire
  9. Fairy Oak, Whitford, Flintshire
  10. Fortingall Yew, Glen Lyon, Perthshire
  11. Gospel Oak, Hanborough, Oxfordshire
  12. Hanging Tree, Glen Lochay, Killin, Perthshire
  13. Hanging Tree, Killin, Perthshire
  14. Maiden’s Oak, Baswich, Staffordshire
  15. Maypole Tree, Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire
  16. Port Cross, Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire
  17. Robin Hood’s Oak, Great Horkesley, Essex
  18. Rock Tree, Cromarty, Ross & Cromarty
  19. St. Fillan’s Ash, Killin, Perthshire
  20. Snow’s Oak, Acton Trussel, Staffordshire
  21. Temple Tree, Templeton, Newtyle, Angus
  22. Trysting Tree, Harthill, South Yorkshire
  23. Wallace’s Oak, Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
  24. Wallace’s Thorn, Dunfermline, Fife
  25. Witch Tree, Aberuthven, Perthshire